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CVE-2020-3125

CRITICAL

A vulnerability in the Kerberos authentication feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and bypass authentication on an affected device that is configured to perform Kerberos authentication for VPN or local device access. The vulnerability is due to insufficient identity verification of the KDC when a successful authentication response is received. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by spoofing the KDC server response to the ASA device. This malicious response would not have been authenticated by the KDC. A successful attack could allow an attacker to bypass Kerberos authentication.

Published: May 6, 2020 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-287 CWE-287

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products (17)

Vendor Product Version
cisco asa_5505_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5510_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5512-x_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5515-x_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5520_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5525-x_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5540_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5545-x_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5550_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5555-x_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5580_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco asa_5585-x_firmware 9.10\(1.220\)
cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software * ≥ 9.8 < 9.8.4.15
cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software * ≥ 9.9 < 9.9.2.66
cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software * ≥ 9.10 < 9.10.1.37
cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software * ≥ 9.12 < 9.12.3.2
cisco adaptive_security_appliance_software * ≥ 9.13 < 9.13.1.7

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-9x68-6g6c-vj48

A vulnerability in the Kerberos authentication feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 2.36%

Top 18% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 39.9 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub